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Francis, celebrating the 12th Christmas of his pontificate, presided at a solemn Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica and opened the 2025 Catholic Holy Year, which the Vatican expects will ...
Francis, celebrating the 11th Christmas of his pontificate, presided at a solemn Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica and spoke of the conflict in the Holy Land in his homily.
Pope Francis said in his Christmas Eve homily that a world often obsessed with gifts, feasting and self-centeredness needed more humility. Pope says Christmas 'hostage' to materialism, God in ...
Pope Francis [b] (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; [c] 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is the first pope from the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order), the first from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere , and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope ...
Pope Francis is described as being in close continuity with the Second Vatican Council of Catholic bishops (1962–1965) that strove to read the "signs of the times" and address new questions that had challenged the Catholic Church in the mid-twentieth century, such as its appeal to non-Western cultures. [9]
Among the people at St. Peter's Square during The Inauguration Mass. The papal inauguration of Pope Francis was held on 19 March 2013 [1] in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. Holy Mass was celebrated by Pope Francis before political and religious leaders from around the world. The crowd was estimated between 150,000 and 200,000.
Pope Francis called for an end to global wars and divisiveness in his annual Christmas Day message, given Wednesday. “This Christmas, at the beginning of the Jubilee Year, I invite every ...
Pope Francis is opening a holy door at a prison, which would happen for the first time during an ordinary Jubilee Year, though opened one during the 2015 Jubilee Year of Mercy, according to Denver ...